a reblog covering NYC’s sustainability scene
Posted in Community, Food, Health, Parks and Open Space, pollution on May 14th, 2009
The Times has an interesting piece on lead impacting people’s urban gardening efforts:
FRANK MEUSCHKE’S garden, which surrounds the house he rents in Brooklyn, is a bountiful source of tomatoes, snap peas, green beans, peppers, lettuce and multiple varieties of flowers. It is also, as he recently discovered to his dismay, a rich repository of lead. […]
IT TAKES A PLANET: CONNECTING THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE AND NATURE
2009 Mack Lipkin Man and Nature Series Panel Discussion
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
American Museum of Natural History
LeFrak Theater, 7:00 pm
FREE ADMISSION
How should we respond to today’s environmental and health challenges?
WNYC and Public Radio International’s Julie Burstein (“Studio 360”)
leads this lively and thoughtful discussion with Peter Daszak,
President of […]
April 2-3 at the American Museum of Natural History:
EXPLORING THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The Milstein Science Symposium
Presented by the American Museum of Natural History’s
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics
New York City, New York, USA
April 2 and 3, 2009
http://cbc.amnh.org/health/
Health and the environment are deeply intertwined for populations, species, […]
Posted in Energy, Environmental Justice, Health on Nov 28th, 2008
Melissa Checker, who not long ago wrote a great article on green collar job creation in the South Bronx, has another bang up piece in the Gotham Gazette, this time about another of our favorite NYC environmental orgs: WEACT. Here is but a glimpse:
In 2006 Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited WEACT founder, Peggy Shepherd to […]
From the NYLCV’s ecopolitics daily:
Next spring, 490 acres of polluted mud will be dredged out of a stretch of the Hudson River so toxic that fish are considered unfit for consumption, according to the Buffalo Times.
To kick off the six-year project, General Electric is building a wharf, processing facility, and rail yard to remove […]
Posted in Climate Change, Education, Energy, Green Building, Health, Livable Streets, Politics, Transportation, Urban Environment, Waste, Water on Apr 22nd, 2008
From the Mayor’s Office:
MAYOR BLOOMBERG ANNOUNCES UPDATE ON PLANYC INITIATIVES AND ISSUES THE 2008 PLANYC PROGRESS REPORT
Detailed […]
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Nature, Parks and Open Space on Mar 28th, 2008
Photo: Department of City Planning
This is as good a way as any to start. From the Times’ City Room blog:
I think that I shall never see a zoning text amendment lovely as a tree. But the new Section 26-41 of the Zoning Resolution, which was approved on Monday by the City Planning Commission, no […]
Posted in Health, Livable Streets, Transportation on Mar 24th, 2008
Image from Transportation Alternatives ad [pdf]
I swear, this reblog isn’t all CP all the time. It’s just a particularly live period for this vital bit of public health-mass transit-climate change-energy-local economy-livable streets legislation. Here’s what happening right now.
Streetsblog (of course) had blogger Ben Fried inside the City Council public hearings today.
At the […]
Posted in Health, Parks and Open Space, Politics, Waste, Water on Mar 24th, 2008
Newtown Creek is one of NYC’s dirtiest little secrets. By now, most folks know about the enormous oil spill that still sits stagnant, but if you need a recap, this Mother Jones article from last fall is a great start.
Well there’s some (a little) good news on the Newtown front. There are […]
Posted in Climate Change, Health, Livable Streets, Transportation on Mar 10th, 2008
We don’t make secret our support of congestion pricing. Not do we keep quiet our frustration with local politicians who fail to see the bigger picture. It was with some dismay, then, that we read the results of this Times survey late last week, showing the Bloomberg and CP supporters have […]